Benjamin Britten's War Requiem | Full Concert in HD
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- In commemoration of the 100th year anniversary of World War One, Southbank Centre staged a special performance of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem featuring hundreds of young performers back in November 2014.
See the full concert in its entirety conducted by Marin Alsop.
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I have loved this work since 1966 and it still brings me to tears. I also loved seeing so many young people playing it. Bravo!
Britton's masterpiece. 🎉
0:39 Requiem Aeternam pt1 (page 1)
4:45 Requiem Aeternam pt2 (page 10)
9:09 Kyrie eleison pt1 (page 19)
10:27 Dies Irae pt1 (page 20)
21:28 Soprano/Alto Duet (page 44)
24:47 Confutatis Maledictis - Bass/Tenor duet (page 50)
27:42 Dies Irae pt2 (page 59)
28:47 Lacrimosa (page 62)
34:50 Kyrie Eleison pt2 (page 71)
37:45 Sed signifer sanctus (page 75)
38:09 Quam olim Abrahae pt1 (page 77)
44:23 Quam olim Abrahae pt2 (page 95)
46:46 Pleni sunt caeli et terra gloria tua (page 104)
47:29 Sanctus pt1 (page 108)
48:38 Benedictus (page 113)
50:41 Sanctus pt2 (page 118)
55:51 Agnus Dei (page 126)
58:50 Libera Me pt1 (page 130)
1:02:23 Dum discusio Venerit (page 137)
1:03:46 Dies Irae pt3 (page 150)
1:04:34 Libera Me pt2 (page 154)
1:16:11 In Paradisum pt1 (page 167)
1:18:49 In Paradisum pt2 (page 170)
1:19:04 Kyrie Eleison pt3 (page 179)
3:50 Children's Chorus,
10:27 Dies Irae, 12:00 good bit.
19:24 Soldiers welcomed by death
28:50 Lacrimosa
34:52 Prayer
1:05:40 Strange Meeting
I've been a fan of this piece since 1966. Heard it through countless, countless times. But this rendition got to me more than all others. Marin Alsop is the best. BZ.
Stage worker here, we prepared this today. I could go and watch the concert this evening form behind the scenes. Yet I sit home and watch this. Being the introvert :D
i was a part of the children's chorus (in the red shirts). this was my first time performing the war requiem, and since, i have performed it a few more times. truly my favourite piece.
You did well to sing without music.
An epic work that condemns the stupidity of war.
A wonderful performance by all a true tribute to the many young people who gave their lives in the First World War. Stunning as always with Marion Alssop armed with a baton you know it will be magical. Forty years ago I heard it in the Albert hall for the 60 th and now singing in Lincoln Cathedral 3:11 2018 for 100 an honour. Thank you who ever put this up
Benjamin Britten's 'War Requiem" was composed to commemorate the reconsecration of Coventry Cathedral, which was badly damaged by the Nazi's bombing of London during W.W. II. I had the privilege of performing this work once during my years as a chorister with the Choral Arts Society of Washington.
The Requiem has nothing to do with the bombing of London. It was specifically commissioned to mark the bombing of the part of England known as The Midlands which was focused on Coventry. The Cathedral suffered severe damage and a new Cathedral was commissioned instead of repairing the damage. Coventry is over 100 miles from London. The first performance of the War Requiem was in the new Cathedral at the time of the Cathedral's consecration in 1962.
I sang this in the early 1960s with the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus. I believe it was the second performance in the United States. I tear up when I hear it to this day. The Wilfred Owen poems are wonderful--would that the world knew them and lived by them.
+Mike Swanson well thank you for singing such a song as this, i do like songs that have this style that gives you so many possibilities to interpret as
I sang in the chorus when I was in my final year of my degree in music at Napier University in Edinburgh..we sang it at the Usher Hall there...this piece still makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck. I was 17 when I sang alto in the choir I am 52 now.
I sang in the boys choir in Miami about the same time. We sat off stage. My mom was in the orchestra. All in Latin. I can still sing it.
Singing this on 10 November in the Sage, Gateshead. Finding it very difficult but this performance is inspirational and i will listen to it again and let it get under my skin. Very moving and technically brilliant from such young performers.
Frau Marin Alsop is superb !!!
The Camera directore clearly don't know nothing about the Master work, only the 30 final minutes.
Exellent performance of All !
Danke .
What a wonderful performance, one of the best I have seen/heard of the War Requiem. The soloists were outstanding, particularly the Soprano. Thank you for posting this.
Thanks ❤️
I have managed to track down the names of the soloists:
Natalia Tanasiiciuc soprano
Ben Johnson tenor
Johannes Kammler baritone
Thank you so much for this info, Melvyn.
The very minor imperfections of the children's voices makes this piece, perhaps the greatest representation in art of the immense suffering and useless waste of human life during wartime, so incredibly creepy!!! This is nightmarish! So incredibly beautiful and dark at the same time!!!
Yes! it's true, but I can't completely agree, unfortunately the children's choirs usually have a lack of technique that I consider hinders a little the experience just for not giving them the attention they deserve.
Muchas gracias por subir esta maravillosa obra....para mi es de lo mas bonito que compuso Britten!!!
The orchestra and adult choir brought back memories of hearing the composer conduct the premier of this work with the London Symphony, Bach Choir and Highgate School Boy's Choir (UK) in the 1960s. We felt this U.S. group was rather good--- only regret the use of this particular children's choir which negated the effect of a boy's choir which Britten specifically desired and used in Britain and other areas of Europe.
this is british and all youth in fact --
+Oscar Ridout But not "all boys" is the point. It is true that they do have a particular sound & that Britten wanted that sound.
Actually the performers were British not American. However you're right about the boys choir of course, maybe a case of ridiculous p.c.? - nothing would surprise me.
Es impactante escuchar y ver esta magna obra de Benjamín Britten, sobre todo en un año tan especial, en que se conmemora la Primera Guerra Mundial. Todos habremos perdido a alguien en esa o en la Segunda. Terribles tiempos de la Historia, que algunos artistas, como Britten, han grabado para siempre en música llena de sentimientos y evocaciones. Gran pieza que, posiblemente, tiene reminiscencias del fantástico Requiem de Verdi.
Absolutely brilliant... and moving.
Thank goodness thank you for your good work for showing us this.😊
47:20 this part always gives me an eargasm. This performance does it the best since in other performances the trumpets always enter hesitantly and the climax just falls flat, but in this one they double down and play loud as it should be.
Good one!
The first recording of the WAR REQUIEM was a studio recording made by Decca in the early 60s with Galina Vishnevskaya(soprano), Sir Peter Pears(tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau(baritone), the Melos Ensemble, the Bach Choir, the Highgate School Choir, and the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by the composer. As far as I'm concerned, this is the definitive performance of Lord Britten's magnum opus.
Grant eternal rest to the departed, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them.
I also sang this, with Mike Swanson, in the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus under the direction of Robert Shaw. I believe that it was in my second season with the group, 1962-63. Mr. Shaw also directed a performance of it in Cleveland's Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in the 1980s, sponsored by PAND (Performers and Artists for Nuclear Disarmament.) My favorite portions are the entire "Dies Irae" and the hauntingly beautiful Tenor solo in the "Agnus Dei." The piece was probably my favorite in my sixteen years in the COC, exceeded only by the Bach B Minor Mass.
Very good job !!!
What a fantastic performance of this incredibly moving work. I was particularly impressed with the young soprano soloist. Whoever she is, she was marvelous in this solo. If anyone knows her name I would be grateful to be told. Would love to hear whatever else she has done. Over all thank you so much for posting this.
Thank you for your nice words. ❤️
Jacobbump1282
The Sop is Natalia Tanasiiciuc
Ben Johnson - Tenor
Johannes Kammier - Baritone
Soprano appears to go by name of Natalia Tanasii
Thank you very much for this sharing! It's very beautiful. Tell me please: Which is orchestra (and chorus)? Who are soloist? Thanks.
Cao Phong Tran Tien La orquesta es la FILARMONICA DE LONDRES.
+Cao Phong Tran Tien The concert was conducted by Marin Alsop and featured an orchestra from the Royal Academy of Music, National Youth Choir, children’s chorus (specially formed by Southbank Centre, organist and soloists.
Natalia Tanasiiciuc soprano
Ben Johnson tenor
Johannes Kammler baritone
27:43 that (appropriate) camera shaking tho
Premiered #otd in 1962 🌺🌺🌺
10.26 11.10 11.59 12.49
im 11 jears old and i like ... rap ? no ... i like klassik!
That´s great! :o)
Fantastico, bravo!
I was like you when very young!
And so young you listen to Britten? Bravo.
Study very hard and good luck to you!
Information about this concert is here: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/remembrance-sunday-brittens-84201
Is Marin Alsop still with the Buffalo Philharmonic? Anyone?
She's working with the Baltimore Symphony and a Brazilian Symphony, with infrequent other appearances.
Marin Alsop is chief conductor of the Sao Paulo S.O./Brazil and has elevated that orchestra to World standard in just a few years, quite an achievement.
I live in Roch., NY and have seen her conduct in Buffalo. One of the world's great conductors!
Privileged to have Marin Alsop as conductor of the Denver Symphony Orchestra early in her career and the last performance I attended was the Verdi Requiem-electrifying! Truly one of the greats on her profession. Will be looking for more performances on CZcams under her baton.
She superbly manages the performances (concertos) of the International Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels and is of a perfection in the flexibility that allows her to adapt to each candidate I discovered on this occasion and is for me one of the biggest conductor of his generation
¿Qué estamos haciendo con los coros infantiles?
Amo verdaderamente este requiem, incluso tuve la oportunidad de ser parte de un concierto del mismo en mi país como miembro del coro infantil y me entristece que algo tan aparentemente simple como esto pueda entorpecer la experiencia por no atribuirle la importancia que merece. Pese a tener ejemplos tan buenos como Libera, la Schola Cantorum de la catedral de Bogotá entre muchos otros que demuestran que se puede hacer un gran trabajo con coros infantiles en este ámbito se suele asumir que como son niños y mas en sima un coro no se esforzarán por lo que no me extraña no haber visto el primer concierto de este requiem donde el coro infantil de la talla pero si encontrar orquestas y solistas implacables.
Schola Cantorum de la Catedral de Bogotà:
czcams.com/video/L8ixumcUcCg/video.html
Libera: czcams.com/video/MAkXHhs9vOc/video.html
Ben Johnson sounds like Pears.
No five-string bass in this work.
I have listened to this work on and off for forty years. I wish I could speak differently, but at 64, I find it a tedious and tuneless work (with the possible exception of the Agnus Dei and In Paradisum, which are very moving). In her autobiography Galina, Vishnevskaya called it the greatest choral work of the 20th Century. I cannot agree. Britten does the moving Owen texts very little justice. What an occasion - unlimited resources and the opening of an impressive modern cathedral! And how little Britten made of the occasion. The work used pretty much all of the avant garde compositional devices of its day. Yet how old and clichéd it sounds today, in contrast to Bach's Matthew Passion, which sounds as fresh as the day it was written, nearly 300 years ago - precisely because it is timeless. I wish I could say something different and more positive; regretfully, I must be honest.
Sorry to inject a note of dissent for the uncritical fawning adulation over this piece. Britten , who I admire hugely as a composer, was a politically naive adolescent who scuttled off the America to save his skin. Then returned to the UK where be benefitted from the the sacrifice and courage of braver men than him. Without WW2, the UK would be another Nazi colony. Pacifism is essentially a dishonest philosophy which simply ignores reality, like socialism. Britten’s musical genius - just - redeems this work from being mere emotional blackmail and political propaganda
Kinderchor ist schlecht
Soloists fine but the rest is a mess. Alsop just doesn't 'get' this piece.